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Amazon’s Echo Show 10 and Ring drone are basically Alexa robots
Amazon just casually announced a security camera drone that flies around your home. The Ring Always Home Cam is an autonomous drone that is designed to fly on preset paths indoors or when a Ring Alarm detects motion. Yes, a flying security camera.
The latest Ring device is built to be noisy on purpose – so if you’re home, you’ll hear it coming. It will cost $249 when it launches in the US in 2021. And it isn’t the only robot-like smart home tech announced by Amazon during its latest hardware showcase. The new Echo Show 10 smart display, coming to the UK for £240, swivels around on its base to face you using an almost-silent brushless motor.
In other words, remember the Alexa home robot that Amazon was rumoured to be building? Throw in the new AZ1 Neural Edge chip, fresh work on a genuinely conversational Alexa voice assistant and improvements to sound detection and Amazon has just proven that it has almost all the technological components it needs to fill our homes with moving, talking Alexa-powered... friends.
These announcements are a big step towards an Alexa bot rolling – or indeed flying – around the home, chatting to various family members or housemates. Why? Well, for starters, Amazon’s AZ1 neural processor has allowed it to experiment with new speech recognition models such as natural turn taking, in which you could ask Alexa to join a conversation and have the voice assistant respond to multiple people on multiple topics without using the wake word every time, based on audio and (unspecified) visual cues.
And as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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